Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe’s eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.
This is according to a comprehensive report released last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based rights NGO, which interviewed over 100 people in the region in February 2009.
Mining in Marange [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘torture’
June 28, 2009
Massacres, forced labour haunt Zimbabwe diamond fields
January 14, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Two-year-old released after 3 month imprisonment
According to today’s main story posted on The Zimbabwe Times, the two-year-old toddler incarcerated and tortured at the notorious Chikurubi Prison was released yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon. He has spent three months imprisoned; his mother continues to remain behind bars.
According to the article:
“Medical reports show that during his abduction and continued detention for charges of banditry [...]
January 14, 2009
Two-year-old kid tortured in notorious Zim prison
There are no limits to the brutality that Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF government is prepared to employ in ensuring its continued grip on power. Recently, human rights activists and opposition supporters were abducted and thrown into the notorious Chikurubi Prison.
Here they have been subjected to torture and beating. Very little food has been provided. They [...]
June 18, 2008
The Zanu-PF Fan Club (also known as the ANC)
Robert Mugabe is one lucky dictator, being in the enviable position of having outsourced his foreign diplomacy efforts to the South African government. By preventing a discussion in the United Nations Security Council on Zimbabwe’s political situation, South Africa is doing its utmost to ensure that the international community does nothing about the tyrannous regime’s [...]
May 11, 2008
Zim torture camps exposed
In this chilling exposé, an undercover journalist from the Daily Telegraph reveals the horrifying brutality that Zanu PF thugs are subjecting suspected MDC suppporters to.
Lists have been drawn up, and alleged MDC supporters are being rounded up and sent to a makeshift torture camp set up in a former school.
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